The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), formed in June 2002, will either greatly help or hinder the future of wireless industry, according to a new study from the Shosteck Group.
According to the Shosteck Group, OMA plays a political role in the future of wireless technology as it must balance needs for standardization and interoperability with needs to promote an architecture that will lead to commercially deployable and profitable services. The new study reviews the key goal of OMA, which is to create an RF agnostic, operating system independent, and fully interoperable mobile phone architecture, and discusses how vested interests pose a danger to the process and the group mainly benefits the largest competitors.
The study also reviews the impact of OMA on specific companies including Microsoft, Nokia, Openwave, Qualcomm, Sony-Ericsson and Samsung.
